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The Fall into Eden: Landscape and Imagination in California

By David Wyatt

Book information

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
1990
ISBN
0521397510, 9780511597701, 9780521323994, 9780521397513
Language
english
Format
DJVU
Filesize
2 MB (2285280 bytes)
Series
Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture
Pages
300\298
Topic
Education
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

In this book, David Wyatt examines the mythology of California as it is reflected in the literature of the region. He argues that the encounter with landscape played an important role in literature of the West, and distinguishes this particular characteristic from the literatures of other American regions. Wyatt discusses in depth the writings of Dana, Leonard, Fremont, Muir, King, Austin, Norris, Steinbeck, and Chandler, Jeffers and Snyder and their literary reactions to the landscape. By examining the changing role of the landscape in literature of California, the book sheds new light on an important theme in the American creative popular consciousness.

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